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Federal emissions funds to be spent on highways ( www.texastribune.org )

What a joke.

[Texas Tribune] Their water is undrinkable. So these West Texas residents have taken matters into their own hands. ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] Texas’ environmental agency enables companies to increase oilfield wastewater disposal in rivers ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor ( www.texastribune.org )

“The recent challenges regarding Dr. McElroy have made it clear to me that I must retire immediately,” Banks wrote in her resignation letter. “The negative press is a distraction from the wonderful work being done here.”

[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements ( www.texastribune.org )

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[Texas Tribune] With no new funding from the state, Texas schools are breaking the bank to pay for teacher raises ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] Texas gets $60 million in federal funds to strengthen power grid against extreme weather ( www.texastribune.org )

Climate change, costly disasters sent Texas homeowner insurance rates skyrocketing this year ( www.texastribune.org )

Lubbock County becomes latest to approve “abortion travel ban” while Amarillo City Council balks ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] 774 new Texas laws go into effect Friday. Here are some that might affect you. ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] Texas drivers vexed by toll road payment problems got little relief from state lawmakers ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] Ken Paxton’s team said there was no evidence to support impeachment. The House published nearly 4,000 pages. ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] Justice Department threatens Texas with legal action over floating barrier in Rio Grande ( www.texastribune.org )

The U.S. Justice Department has threatened legal action against Gov. Greg Abbott over the 1,000-foot floating barrier that the state deployed in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass earlier this month....

[Texas Tribune] Texas judge who doesn’t want to perform gay marriage ceremonies hopes web designer’s Supreme Court case helps her fight ( www.texastribune.org )

Texas A&M recruited a UT professor to revive its journalism program, then backtracked after “DEI hysteria” ( www.texastribune.org )

Texas set to execute Ramiro Gonzales for 2001 murder ( www.texastribune.org )

Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum ( www.texastribune.org )

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Texas to pay landowners for damage caused by border crime | The Texas Tribune ( www.texastribune.org )

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School voucher supporter gave Gov. Greg Abbott $6 million in December ( www.texastribune.org )

Gov. Greg Abbott received a $6 million campaign contribution last month, which his campaign is calling the “largest single donation in Texas history.” The check came from Jeff Yass, a national Republican megadonor whose priority issues include school vouchers. Abbott spent 2023 unsuccessfully pushing for a voucher program...

After pause, this Texas city is set to reconsider banning travel to access an abortion ( www.texastribune.org )

[TexasTribune] Texas quietly moves to formalize acceptable cancer risk from industrial air pollution. Public health officials say it’s not strict enough ( www.texastribune.org )

[Texas Tribune] Federal judge bars Texas from enforcing book rating law ( www.texastribune.org )

House Bill 900 requires book vendors to rate all their materials based on their depictions or references to sex before selling them to schools. Vendors say the law aims to regulate protected speech with “vague and over broad” terms.